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Critical Content/Concept Web

Unit Theme: World War II

Conceptual Lens: Conflict
Unit Length: 6 weeks


Unit Overview

World War II: The Holocaust

At the age of just 13, your family is taken out of your childhood home that always felt safe and comforting. To stay away from danger you hide in an isolated room where you cannot be found, not even by those who you are wishing to find you, you have to stay alone and isolated for your own safety. How will you get by without all of the things you normally have? With no one around to guide you or help you, how will you find a way to survive? To eat? To sleep or talk? How will you find a way out and where will you go? Find the ways that others have survived and lived in such circumstances in order to find your way to a better life, the life your family wanted for you before World War II took them all away, before the Holocaust changed everything.

English
Social Studies
Art & Music
Insert Integration Area
- Reading "Number the Stars," "Tell Them We Remember," and "Six Million Paperclips."
- Photo and quote hooks
- Group work
- Reactions to effects upon individuals within the Holocaust
- Reflections on history and on work done in class
- Jeopardy
- Poem
- Music video and song lyrics

-the students will be researching various aspects of the Holocaust dealing with their books
-They will understand that during WWII the Nazi oppression spread across Europe through their research (books and online) and the class textbook
-artifacts
be provided.
-Documentaries
-webquest.


-Artifacts
-Songs/Music (Lyrics,etc.)
-Paintings
-Sculptures
-Uniforms (Design/Reasons)
-Museums
-Photography


Designer(s): Kaisha Dunne, Ryanne Brown, Lindsey Barton

The students will understand that the Holocaust was a dramatic and emotionally changing event that effected the world.
What were the political and cultural effects of the Holocaust on the countries involved in WWII and why is it essential for us to continue to learn about those effects today?


Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
7:45-8:10
Advisory
Advisory
Advisory
Advisory
Advisory
8:10-9:45
English
Math
English
Math
Integrated
9:45-9:50
Transition
Transition
Transition
Transition
Transition
9:50-11:25
Social Studies
Science
Social Studies
Science
Integrated
11:55-12:40
Open Lab
Open Lab
Open Lab
Open Lab
Open Lab